Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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“Sons” is a form of

son

/sʌn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sons sonning sonned the Son sonne

  1. noun One's male offspring. “Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter."”
  2. noun A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
  3. noun A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
  4. noun A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict. “He was a son of the mafia system.”
  5. noun A person regarded as the product of some place.
  6. noun A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
  7. noun (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
  8. noun (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
  9. verb (transitive) To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son.
  10. verb (transitive) To address (someone) as "son".
  11. noun (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
  12. proper noun (Christianity) One of the three persons of the Trinity, believed to have become incarnated as Jesus Christ.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

boy lad Word Logos

Antonyms

daughter father mother parent

Etymology

From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”).

From Middle English sonen, sunen, from the noun (see above).

From Spanish son (literally “tone, sound”).

From son (“male offspring”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
  2. noun A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.

Etymology [OE. sone, sune, AS. sunu; akin to D. zoon, OS., OFries., & OHG. sunu, G. sohn, Icel. sonr, Sw. son, Dan. sön, Goth. sunus, Lith. sunus, Russ. suin', Skr. sunu (from su to beget, to bear), and Gr. Sow, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “son”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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